Southport: Give us our country back from false ‘patriots.’

Right, so as the good people of Southport have been cleaning up their streets, rebuilding walls and repairing damage in the aftermath of the night before, they’ll be justifiably angry at what came to pass as they held a vigil following the attack upon children at a dance school that has shocked and appalled a nation, and the reporting of it has gone so far and wide even the likes of Al-Jazeera have reported on it, though sadly lies concerning these events had travelled around the world before the truth had got it’s boots on. The disinformation spread by the far right, determined to pin the blame, to say the perpetrator of the attack was a Muslim, to even make up a fake Muslim sounding name and allow them to politicise this tragedy to pander to their own petty, racist actions thereafter. What makes such people prepared to use a tragedy for their own selfish violent desires, frankly much better than the individual guilty of perpetrating the crime? Knuckle-dragging brain cell deficient pathetic individuals not only used this tragedy as an excuse to commit acts of vandalism and violence, but engineered a back story and propagated it across social media as well, making these self-professed patriots a greater societal sickness now than they ever were before.
Right, so that was a short clip showing some of the damage caused by people who so often call themselves patriots at what was supposed to be a peaceful and sombre vigil and time of reflection in the Southport community affected by recent events, the tragic deaths of 3 young children and several more injured. Patriotism is a word that these days no longer has much meaning towards pride in ones country, but has much more to do with petty racism and violence, much as the St George’s Flag has increasingly become.
I haven’t discussed the events of the Southport tragedy up until now, this is a political commentary channel, but it cannot be ignored that those three little girls having had their lives ended at the hands of a 17 year old from Wales, has in no small part become politicised due to the actions of the thugs that descended upon Southport and committed those awful scenes and sowed the discord online about the identity of the attacker.
Where they made out that he was a Muslim who arrived by small boat as an asylum seeker last year. It was nonsense, it was made up, only far right sociopaths would dream of inventing such a story and furthermore share it around, propagating the lies, especially when the likes of Laurence Fox and Andrew Tate were amongst them – big accounts causing a lot of damage and harm. Announcing the identity of the guy, made up as that was, despite retaining the information that they were only 17 should have been a red flag, since anyone accused of a crime under the age of 18 in this country has their identity kept confidential, but I suppose when you’re in the likes of the English Defence League, who are allegedly behind all the damage caused there, truly patriotic actions, not, I suppose you’ve only got two brain cells to begin with and they’re both fighting over third place.
All we actually know right now is that the attacker was 17, born in Cardiff and is of Rwandan descent. Perhaps that’s all the EDL needed? Oh he’s Rwandan, or near enough, they should be deported, why did Starmer scrap the Rwanda flights, they should be on them, we can imagine what passes for thought in the largely empty space between their ears went something along those lines.
Sadly if they bothered to look into Rwanda itself as a country, rather than just somewhere else that migrants can be dumped and forgotten about, they might have realised that it is more than 93% Christian, but that would require doing some homework and I fancy that is something such people have never been accustomed to actually doing.
Instead, he had to be a Muslim and so the scenes of devastation from Southport last night centred around an attack of course on a mosque. Nothing to do with Muslims at all as far as we are aware, yet they automatically became the target. You’d have been better off surrounding a church if it’s about religion. Dumbasses.
But let’s not pretend for one moment here that the three girls at the centre of this story meant a damn thing to the thugs of the EDL. This was the equivalent of them getting their rocks off. It was an opportunity to demonise anyone foreign, asylum seekers, migrants, anyone they didn’t approve of, not that their opinions matter one iota, a bunch of overly angry man-babies who need to grow up, get over themselves and get used to the fact this is a welcoming, multicultural country, where their sick, racist tendencies might get shouted loudly, with torched ambulances and bricks thrown whilst the people of Southport gathered for a vigil in memory of lives cut so tragically short, their families in mourning but at least those rancid ‘patriotic’ views remain very much in the minority and an entire nation is united in disdain and disgust at them and their actions. Where most of us want to know why this tragic attack on little kids happened and want to see justice pursued, this lot just saw an opportunity to indulge their own petty racist predispositions and now, where the focus should have been one of solidarity and sympathy and empathy for those families affected by an a truly awful crime, we have to talk about the EDL again instead. They whip up hatred, they incite violence and they made up a pack of lies which spread online all culminating in the scenes we’ve seen in Southport, witnessed on social media, they’ve made a tragic event concerning young children and the vigil being held in their memory into an excuse to just attack asylum seekers. You are sick in the head if you were part of that. You’re no patriot, you have the intellectual capacity of a special needs turkey that’s just been lobotomised. You’d be the sort of person who picks their favourite crayon based on which ones tastes best. The sort of person who, if they were given a crossword puzzle for instance, would sit there and colour it in. I’m all about inclusivity, but there’s no room for you, I can’t lower the bar far enough, I don’t have a spade handy to do that. My disgust for people like these fake patriots, like the EDL is absolute. Utter, bottom-feeding scumbags.
You turned up there purporting to what people to feel safe, the threat of asylum seekers, coming here, it was one of them, except it wasn’t it was all lies, it was all made up to excuse you going there to desecrate the area and that vigil. Nothing quite makes you feel safe like a bunch of blokes smashing the place up is there! Is that how you pay your respects normally? Bring your own booze to a vigil, shout and jeer, be all shouty and angry, throw some bricks and torch some emergency service vehicles. What civic pride you’re clearly filled with, certainly there was no show of solemnity or solidarity with those affected!
The race, the religion, where he comes from, all these details about the perpetrator of this heinous crime against young kids are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what they did, the crime they are accused of, the investigation and judicial process. That goes equally in every aspect for those who caused the rioting, and the damage in Southport and to that mosque and my solidarity goes out to Muslim people in Southport who must be feeling scared and angry, likely in equal measure and I don’t blame them at all.
The only thing I agree with the EDL over is their mantra of ‘we want our country back,’ because I want it back from the likes of them. Instead, we’re seeing all too often our politicians being led by their example.
Keir Starmer’s attacks on Bangladeshis during the General Election campaign. His treatment of the Israel and Gaza situation that lost him so many Muslim votes, though not uniquely, yet it is this kind of action that has emboldened the far right to make up stories like they have here to excuse these low-life’s turning up for a piss up and a fight. Where Starmer has overseen peaceful protesters for example locked up for 4 or 5 years, what can we expect those who smashed up Southport to get then? Slap on the wrist?
Well Starmer showed up to pay his respects and lay a wreath, it’s what politicians do isn’t it? He wasn’t exactly welcome though, heckled as he was, and given his own rhetoric concerning asylum seekers and migrants, deservedly so at that by those wishing to hold him accountable for that reason. He was asked what he’d do, was jeered for making a photo op out of the tragedy, didn’t address people’s concerns, just walked away. The EDL need cracking down on. If Starmer is capable of proscribing groups within his own party as he did, for daring to be critical of Israel, he can damn well proscribe a group smashing up our streets. People want you to do something and this is something you can do, so damn well do it. If this woman had the courage to face the racists, you can do something as well from behind the safety of your security team and the walls of parliament.
People in Southport certainly are doing something about it. 100 members of the community this morning turned up at the mosque to help repair it and rebuild a wall, as well as clear that road. The fire brigade arrived to help address smashed windows, using their equipment to help replace them. Solidarity to everyone involved.
Starmer has got a long way to go already to repair relations with Muslim voters, though many, like myself, don’t believe he has any intention of doing so, bringing into question his interest in equalities and well, there’s the whole hierarchy of racism issue he’s got too as laid out in the Forde Report, but even following his election he couldn’t bring himself to publicly acknowledge all the Muslim votes he’d lost as this video recommendation will tell you all about and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.